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 A very simple, fast, multithreaded and platform independent HTTP server implemented using C++11 and Boost::Asio. Makes it easy to create REST resources for a C++ application. 
 
 See main.cpp for example usage. 
+
+Compile with a C++11 compiler supporting regex (for instance g++ 4.9):
+g++ -O3 -std=c++11 -lboost_system main.cpp httpserver.cpp -o httpserver